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ArticleCureus2025

Lemierre's Syndrome Following Streptococcus anginosus Pharyngitis: An Unusual Case of a Forgotten Disease.

Debarghya Chakraborty, Humayra Tabassum, Sowmitra Das

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Article in Cureus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Debarghya ChakrabortyInternal Medicine, King's College University Hospital Trust, London, GBR.
Humayra TabassumInternal Medicine, King's College University Hospital Trust, London, GBR.
Sowmitra DasInternal Medicine, King's College University Hospital Trust, London, GBR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lemierre's syndrome is a rare complication of oropharyngeal infection characterized by septic thrombophlebitis in the internal jugular vein. Despite this being a common occurrence before the era of antibiotics, with beta-lactam antibiotic usage, this pathology has been a rare occurrence since the mid-1900s. Most cases are attributed to

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acute pharyngitisatypical lemierre's syndromeinternal jugular vein thrombophlebitisstreptococcus anginosus groupthrombus dissemination

Identifiers

PMID40236343
PMCPMC11998619

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